Training

Risk-Based Response to Battery Emergencies

This 8-hour, instructor-led course prepares emergency responders to safely and effectively manage battery-related incidents using a risk-based response approach. Participants learn battery construction and chemistry, hazard recognition, thermal runaway response, air monitoring, and fireground strategy and tactics. The training combines classroom instruction with hands-on application and covers battery emergencies in transportation, residential, commercial and industrial environments.

The course covers batteries found in transportation, such as passenger vehicles, ground transport, air, and sea shipping, as well as in residential, commercial and industrial settings.